Re: Central questions of memetics

From: chuck (cpalson@mediaone.net)
Date: Tue May 23 2000 - 08:10:36 BST

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    Robin Faichney wrote:

    > On Mon, 22 May 2000, chuck wrote:
    > >Richard Brodie wrote:
    > >
    > >> Chuck wrote:
    > >>
    > >> <<It's when people start talking about memes like
    > >> fax machines and computer operating systems as "useless" and lots of other
    > >> stuff
    > >> like that that I came to that conclusion.>>
    > >>
    > >> I'm not sure what people you're referring to.
    > >
    > >Again - I went into this in detail. Please let me know.
    >
    > That claim of yours was refuted, Chuck -- shown to rest upon the conflation
    > of "useless" with "unnecessary".
    >

    Sorry, Robin, but you're wrong on this. You haven't paid careful attention to the
    context. As I remember, you actually deleted it rather than read it.

    >
    > --
    > Robin Faichney
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